[R-sig-eco] permutest.cca and means seperation?

Gavin Simpson gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk
Thu Jan 20 10:10:17 CET 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 20:23 +0000, Wilson, Michael E wrote:
> Hi,
> With a CCA object such as outputed by capscale, I see that it is
> possible to calculate significance on a class factor with
> permutest.cca.
> 
> However, with multiple levels of a factor, is there a means separation
> technique for pairwise comparisons like permutest.betadisper but
> instead designed to use on centroids identified in a CCA object?

betadisper() doesn't do a means separation test - it looks at the
dispersions of samples around their respective group centroids and does
ANOVA on those dispersions.

The analogue of what you discuss is adonis() - MANOVA on any
dissimilarity object.

It is not quite a direct analogue; capscale and adonis do different
things with the non-euclidean parts of the dissimilarities. We vegan
developers are discussing what to do about changing capscale so that it
works better with the imaginary eigenvectors and is compatible with the
way adonis and betadisper handle them. However, this moves the function
farther away from Marti Anderson's original CAP procedure.

Which reminds me, I owe Jari an email weighing in on these
discussions...

HTH

G

Ps - note that it is an object of class "cca" and that is a convenience
as we already have tons of code that works on those objects, so we cast
the capscale results as an object of that class.

> Thanks, Michael Wilson
> 
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